The property market bounced back with a 3 per cent rise in prices in the past month taking the average house value to £294,351. Alternatively, the market is growing at its slowest for two years with prices in the past month falling by 1.3 per cent to take the average price of a house to £271,000.

Ernst Malmsten, one of three Swedish founders of boo.com, is now chief executive of the jewellery and luxury goods company Lara Bohinc. Co-founder Kajsa Leander went on to launch the branding agency Studio Berg with her husband, Joel Berg, and is now a director at Vision and Art, a production

When the Nasdaq Composite Index, a bellwether of the technology industry, hit a record high of 5,100 last month, it sent a shudder down the spines of those old enough to recall the last time it broke the 5,000 barrier. That occasion was in September 2000 and the index had soared from 600 to 5,000

A four-bedroom terraced house overlooking the 18th hole at St Andrews was one of the most expensive houses sold in Scotland this year when it was snapped up by an international buyer within three days of coming on to the market for offers over £2.25 million. Jamie McNab, director of country house

After such an unexpectedly decisive election result, you might have thought that we were done with uncertainty. Like it or lump it, the Conservatives won. Now let’s get on. Business — including the buying and selling of houses — as usual. Just as they did in Scotland, where all the uncertainty

William Wordsworth was almost certainly in the Lake District when he wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, in which he chances on daffodils “beside the lake, beneath the trees”. He goes on to describe the pleasure he gets from being alone “along the margin of a bay”. Wordsworth isn’t the only one to

House prices are up by 0.9 per cent in the past month with prices in Yorkshire and Humber experiencing the greatest monthly rise with an increase of 2.7 per cent, according to figures published this week by the Land Registry. Meanwhile the average property in London has gained 10.9 per cent in

A high-specification garage has become as important as, if not more important than, the usual accoutrements of luxury living such as a Miele kitchen, Crestron automation system and Kinesis machine in the home gym. And if the word garage conquers up images of oily cloths and spanners, think again

A ha-ha, an almost invisible boundary formed by a wall within a ditch — with a garden on one side and a field, often with livestock, on the other — was so named because of the surprised response of people who discovered it when walking in the garden. A similar note of surprise was expressed when

There is a sense of arrival as you make your way along the gravel driveway, flanked by flowerbeds, to the elaborate front door of the King Edward VII estate. A sense that only increases once you step inside the main building to discover its impressive wood-panelled lobby, vast ornate sitting room